Method and System for Extracting Valuable Words and Forming Valuable Word Net

ABSTRACT

Method and system for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net, wherein a server is employed to collect contents of articles from internet sources, EDM texts (email direct marketing), product descriptions and other texts, and extract valuable words by machine learning. Each valuable word performs connection weight based on the number of times the text has been read, the number of times the text has been clicked, the number of times the text has been cited, the correlation of external sites, the conversion of expert knowledge, the probability space, the Shannon entropy, the spatial distribution and other values and their conversion by machine learning; then the linked valuable words are integrated to form a valuable word net. When the valuable words are needed to be used, the valuable words and the valuable word net can be retrieved from the database for subsequent applications.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION (1) Field of the Present Disclosure

The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for extractingvaluable words and forming a valuable word net, and more particularly toa method/system that uses word analysis and machine learning, especiallyword extraction, to links a large number of words to form a valuableword net.

(2) Brief Description of Related Art

Currently, the online world is filled with a lot of information,articles, essays, etc. However, it is difficult for the network users,the network data processing units, or the network advertising providersto accurately obtain useful information from the large amount thereof,or to apply it. As a result, how to quickly and accurately obtain usefulinformation from the internet world has become a very important topic inthe network development. Therefore, many conventional solutions havebeen disclosed, such as “method, device, computer equipment and storagemedia for self-learning word segmentation” from CN111488736A, and“methods, systems and electronic equipment for finding talk topics” fromCN111125484A. The technical feature of the above-mentioned solutions isto focus on the hot words searched by the user when the keyword searchis employed, or to perform word frequency statistics on the historicaltext to determine the hot words. Another conventional solutions areshown as follows:

(1) CN106055545A “System and tool text-mining”(2) CN107423444A “Method and system for extracting hot phrases”(3) US20150341771A1 “Hotspot aggregation method and device”(4) US20140122493A1 “Ecosystem method of aggregation and search andrelated techniques”(5) JPA 2020181463 “Treasure keyword search system”(6) JPA 2019003406 “Information gathering equipment, informationgathering method, and information gathering program”

As shown above, there are many methods for extracting effective(“valuable”, or “essential”) words or sentences from the text.Especially, how to define “keyword” has been a topic discussed by theabove-mentioned solutions, such as: the frequency of keywords, themethod of word hyphenation analysis, the frequency of word use, etc.However, if one only uses machine learning to extract keywords, it maymiss non-keywords but useful words. In the process of extractingvaluable words, it is easy to be deliberately manipulated to causedistortion of the judgment results of the system, such as: buzzwords,puns, mixed use of Chinese and English, etc. Moreover, simply extractingvaluable words in the text, if it fails to be more systematicallysorted, will easily make the keywords unable to be effectively combinedwith other keywords when they are subsequently applied.

In summary, the present keyword collection and use do have theabove-mentioned drawbacks. Accordingly, how to avoid the drawbacks ofkeyword collection and improve the convenience and effectiveness of itsapplication are problems to be resolved.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION

It is a primary object of the present disclosure to provide amethod/system for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable wordnet for autonomously collecting various types of text on the Internet,extracting valuable words through machine learning, and then linking thevaluable words to form a “valuable word net”

According to the present disclosure, a server collects in a proactive orautonomous manner all kinds of texts, such as articles from internetsources, EDM texts (email direct marketing), product descriptions, etc.Meanwhile, the server is trained to learn a large amount of texts bymachine learning, while valuable keywords in each text are extracted.The valuable words are not limited to keywords. The server can extractand store “valuable words” with application value according to varioussituations (such as buzzwords, puns, Chinese-English mixed words, etc.).When the extraction of valuable words is completed, the server can trainon the valuable words again. Based on the number of times the text hasbeen read, the number of times the text has been clicked, the number oftimes the text has been cited, the correlation of external sites, theconversion of expert knowledge, the probability space, the Shannonentropy, the spatial distribution and other values and their conversion,the valuable words are weighted to be linked with other valuable words.The link based on the weighted value (=weighted link) can show thecorrelation between various valuable words, and will be adjusteddifferently according to the time and regions. Accordingly, the serverfurther integrates multiple groups of linked valuable words to form adense “valuable word net”. When users need to use valuable words and toretrieve relevant valuable words from their database via the server, thevaluable word net will be retrieved at the same time. In addition, ifthe valuable words belong to different fields or different aspects, theserver can also perform a self-copying learning function. In this way,the weight of the valuable words in the valuable word net can bedirectly adjusted according to different fields. Therefore, there is noneed to perform the weighted link between the valuable words again sothat the users can easily carry out various subsequent applications andprocessing.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing of the composition of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing I of the implementation of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic drawing II of the implementation of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 5 is a schematic drawing III of the implementation of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic drawing IV of the implementation of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 7 is a schematic drawing V of the implementation of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 8 is a schematic drawing VI of the implementation of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 9 is a schematic drawing VII of the implementation of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 10 is a schematic drawing VIII of the implementation of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 11 is a schematic drawing VIIII of the implementation of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 12 is a schematic drawing of another embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 13 is a schematic drawing of a further embodiment of the presentdisclosure; and

FIG. 14 is a schematic drawing of still another embodiment of thepresent disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Referring to FIG. 1, a system for extracting valuable words and forminga valuable word net 1 includes a server 11 and a third-party searchsystem 12.

The server 11 is connected to the third-party search system 12. Theserver 11 can obtain the required learning and training samples throughthe third-party search system 12, and build a model based on the learnedand trained samples. The model is built by training in the way ofmachine learning to learn the text, to extract the valuable word in thetext, and then to link a number of the extracted valuable word to form avaluable word net.

The third-party search system 12 can be a search engine database, anadvertisement database, or a text database. Any system that enables theserver 11 to obtain the required learning and training samples isapplicable.

The server 11 mainly includes a data processing module 111 which isrespectively connected to a data storage module 112, a data collectionmodule 113, a word extraction module 114, and a word net linking module115. The data processing module 111 is employed to operate the server 11and to drive the above-mentioned modules in operation. The dataprocessing module 111, for example a central processing unit (CPU),fulfills functions such as logical operations, temporary storage ofoperation results, and storage of the position of executioninstructions.

The data storage module 112 can store electronic data, such as SSD(Solid State Disk or Solid State Drive), HDD (Hard Disk Drive,), SRAM(Static Random Access Memory), DRAM (Random Access Memory), etc. Thedata storage module 112 mainly includes a learning database 1121, avaluable word database 1122, and a word net database 1123. The learningdatabase 1121 mainly stores text information and text-relatedinformation collected by the data collection module 113. The valuableword database 1122 mainly stores the valuable word extracted by the wordextraction module 114. The word net database 1123 mainly stores the wordnet linked and integrated by the word net linking module 115.

The data collection module 113 mainly obtains the text information andthe text-related information through the third-party search system 12.The data collection module 113 mainly uses browser search, dataretrieval, web crawler and other methods or a combination thereof toobtain the text information and the text-related information. The textinformation can generally refer to texts such as articles from internetsources, email marketing texts, product descriptions, public documents,short texts, or a combination thereof. The text information includes notonly a single natural language or a single natural language family, butalso multiple natural languages or mixed natural languages. Thetext-related information refers to any one or a combination of relateddata of the text or words in the text, such as the number of times thetext has been used, the number of times the text has been linked, thenumber of times the text has been cited, the number of times the texthas been clicked, the number of times the text has been read, the numberof times the words in the text have been occurring, used, read, andclicked, and the frequency of common words, and various values such asthe correlation of external sites, the conversion of expert knowledge,the probability space, the Shannon entropy, the spatial distribution aswell as the weighted value between the various values after conversionand other valuable word. The correlation of the external station refersto the analysis and calculation of the data crawled from the outside,and the calculation of the scores for the text of the data crawled fromthe outside based on the related words. The above-mentioned conversionof expert knowledge refers to the conversion of the existing expertrules in the company into a quantitative value, such as ExplicitKnowledge.

The word extraction module 114 can train and learn the text informationand extract the valuable word therefrom. The training/learning (machinelearning) mainly refers to an unsupervised learning, a self-supervisedlearning or a heuristic algorithms, which can be performed bythemselves. The word extraction module 114 uses the text information andthe text-related information independently collected by the datacollection module 113 or stored in the learning database 1121 astraining data. Meanwhile, the valuable words are extracted and stored inthe valuable word database 1122 or transmitted to the subsequent wordnet linking module 115. The valuable word extracted by the wordextraction module 114 are not limited to a single language or languagefamily. The same or similar words in different languages or languagefamilies can also be extracted. The word net linking module 115 cantrain and learn the text-related information with respect to thevaluable word sent by the word extraction module 114 or stored in thevaluable word database 1122, and assign the valuable word and anothervaluable word to create links based on the weighting of words. Thetraining/learning (machine learning) mainly refers to an unsupervisedlearning, a self-supervised learning or a heuristic algorithms, whichcan be performed by themselves, but not limited thereto. The valuableword and several other valuable word can have their own weighting ofwords to create links. Another valuable word can be linked withsubsequent valuable word. Therefore, the word net linking module 115 canintegrate a great number of valuable words into a valuable word netwhich is stored in the word net database 1123.

As illustrated in FIG. 2 together with FIG. 1, the steps of the presentdisclosure are shown as follows:

(1) Step S1 of Collecting Texts:

As shown in FIG. 3, the data collection module 113 of the server 11 isconnected to the third-party search system 12 via internet, and collectsa text information D1 and a text-related information D2 related to thetext information D1 through the third-party search system 12. The textinformation D1 and the text related information D2 are stored in alearning database 1121, or directly sent to a subsequent word extractionmodule 114. The text information D1 refers to texts such as articlesfrom internet sources, email marketing texts, product descriptions,public documents, short texts, or a combination thereof. Thetext-related information D2 refers to any one or a combination ofrelated data of the text or words in the text, such as the number oftimes the text has been used, the number of times the text has beenlinked, the number of times the text has been cited, the number of timesthe text has been clicked, the number of times the text has been read,the number of times the words in the text have been occurring, used,read, and clicked, and the frequency of common words, etc., but is notlimited thereto. In addition, the server 11 mainly obtains the textinformation D1 and the text related information D2 through thethird-party search system 12 by use of browser search, data retrieval,web crawler, etc. or a combination thereof.

(2) Step S2 of Training and Learning the Texts:

Following the above-mentioned step S1 and referring to FIG. 4, the wordextraction module 114 makes use of the text information D1 and thetext-related information D2 as a first training data to perform a firstmachine learning. The first machine learning mainly refers to anunsupervised learning, a self-supervised learning or a heuristicalgorithms and other machine learning methods that can be performed bythemselves. The text information D1 and text-related information D2trained by the word extraction module 114 can also be stored in thelearning database 1121 of the data storage module 112 by the datacollection module 113 in advance. When the text information D1 issufficient, training and learning can be carried out in a fixed period,so that real-time updates can be performed over time due to thedifference in the amount of stored data. In this way, the results havedifferent aspects and are close to the actual results.

(3) Step S3 of Extracting Valuable Words:

Following the above-mentioned steps and referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, theword extraction module 114 extracts a valuable word D3 from the textinformation D1 collected by the data collection module 113 based on afirst machine learning result after the completion of the step oftraining and learning the texts. The extracted valuable word D3 isstored in the valuable word database 1122, or the valuable word D3 isforwarded to the subsequent word net linking module 115. The wordextraction module 114 uses the text information D1 and the text-relatedinformation D2 including the number of times the text has been used, thenumber of times the text has been linked, the number of times the texthas been cited, the number of times the text has been clicked, thenumber of times the text has been read, the number of times the words inthe text have been occurring, used, read, and clicked, and the frequencyof common words, etc. as the basis for extracting the valuable word D3.For example, the word extraction module 114 extracts a word A “(mask)”from the text information D1 as valuable word based on the first machinelearning result when the word A “(mask)” appears in 7,000 times in the10,000 training data and reaches the requirement of the number(70,000/100,000) of times the word has been clicked/read. In this case,word B “(hospital)” and word C “(epidemic)” will be extracted asvaluable word D3. The above-mentioned example is only a simple example,not limited thereto.

(4) Step S4 of Learning/Training the Valuable Words:

As shown in FIG. 7, the word net linking module 115 of the server 11 canuse the valuable word D3 and the text-related information D2 as a secondtraining data, and perform a second machine learning. The second machinelearning mainly refers to an unsupervised learning, a self-supervisedlearning or a heuristic algorithms that can be performed by themselves.The valuable word D3 can be extracted by the word extraction module 114and stored by the word net linking module 115 in the valuable worddatabase 1122 first. When the valuable word D3 are sufficient, trainingand learning can be carried out so that the real-time updates can beperformed as time goes by and the amount of stored data increases. Inthis way, the results have different aspects and are close to the actualresults.

(5) Step S5 of Linking the Valuable Words:

As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, after completing the second machine learning,the word net linking module 115 generates a word weight D4 based on asecond machine learning result, and employs the word weight D4 to linkthe valuable word D3 with another valuable word D31. The word weight D4can be regarded as the correlation between the valuable word D3 and thevaluable word D31 which can be based on the text-related information andmeasured by any one or a combination of related data of the words in thetext, such as the number of times the text has been used, the number oftimes the text has been linked, the number of times the text has beencited, the number of times the text has been clicked, the number oftimes the text has been read, the number of times the words in the texthave been occurring, used, read, and clicked, and the frequency ofcommon words, the frequency of training use, the number of occurrences,the number of searches, the number of times and various values such asthe correlation of external sites, the conversion of expert knowledge,the probability space, the Shannon entropy and the spatial distribution,and should not be limited thereto. The value of the word weight D4 isgiven by the word net linking module 115 after the training iscompleted. It may be adjusted according to different time, space, andfield. For example, based on the second machine learning result, such asthe number of times a valuable word A “(mask)” and another valuable wordB “(hospital)” appear, are used or searched in online news, the word netlinking module 115 will create a degree (0.8) of correlation between thevaluable word A “(mask)” and another valuable word B “(hospital)”. Theabove-mentioned example is just a simple example. The invention shouldnot be limited thereto. In addition, the valuable word D3 can not onlybe linked to another valuable word D31, but can also be linked tocountless other valuable words (D32, D33 . . . ) according to the wordweight D4. For example, the valuable word A “(mask)” can not only belinked to the valuable word B “(hospital)” based on the degree (0.8) ofcorrelation, but can also be linked to another valuable word C “(life)”based on the degree (0.5) of correlation. The above-mentioned example isjust a simple example. The invention should not be limited thereto.

(6) Step S6 of Forming the Valuable Word Net:

Following the step S5 of linking the valuable words, as shown FIGS. 10and 11, the word net linking module 115 can link multiple groups ofvaluable words D3, D31, D32 . . . based on the word weight D4 to formthe valuable word net D5. The valuable word net D5 is stored in the wordnet database 1123.

As shown in FIG. 12, the step S6 of forming the valuable word net can befollowed by a step S7 of extraction and use. When a user needs to usethe valuable word D3, he can use his user information device to extractthe valuable word D3 from the server 11 for use. Since the valuable wordD3 has been linked to multiple groups of other valuable words D31, D32 .. . to form the valuable word net D5, the user information device cannot only receive the extracted valuable word D3, but also extract theremaining valuable words D3. For example: the user uses his computer ormobile information device to input and search for the word “mask”through the server 11. The server 11 can extract the remaining wordslinked with the word “mask” he searched for (such as “hospital” with acorrelation of 0.8, “life” with a correlation of 0.5, “travel” with acorrelation of 0.3, etc. stored in the server 11 and correlated withrespect to the valuable word “mask”). Meanwhile, the server 11 mayfurther extract the words linked to “hospital”, “life”, “travel”, etc.from the valuable word net D5. The above-mentioned example is just asimple example. The invention should not be limited thereto.

As shown in FIG. 13, the data processing module 111 of the server 11 isfurther linked to a word segmentation auxiliary module 116. The wordsegmentation auxiliary module 116 can assist the word extraction module114, and carry out a word segmentation action to assist the wordextraction module 114 to learn and extract the valuable words D3. Theword segmentation action is mainly based on nouns, adjectives, adverbs,subjects and other parts of the natural language to perform wordsegmentation. The word segmentation action is mainly done for languagefamilies without natural word segmentation, such as Chinese, Japaneseand other language families. For example: The word extraction module 114learns and extracts the valuable words D3 of “Today participate in theTaipei International Furniture Fair”, and the word segmentationauxiliary module 116 can break it into “Today”, “Participate”, “Taipei”,“International”, and “Furniture Show”, so that the word extractionmodule 114 can perform subsequent learning and extraction of valuablewords D3. The above-mentioned example is just a simple example. Theinvention should not be limited thereto.

As shown in FIG. 14, the word net linking module 115 includes aself-copying learning function. The word net link module 115 integratesthe valuable word D3 into the word net D5, and can copy the word weightD4 between the valuable words D3 of the previous valuable word net D5according to the previously integrated valuable word net D5 and apply itto the new valuable word net D5. Due to the different training fields,durations, and number of training samples for the valuable words D3, theprevious valuable word net D5 can be used to quickly adjust the wordweight D4 to form another valuable word net D5. For example: thevaluable word A “mask” is previously linked to the valuable word B(hospital)” with a correlation of 0.8 and linked to the valuable word C“life” with a correlation of 0.5. However, due to the different trainingtime and due to the occurrence of large-scale influenza incidents, masksand life are mentioned a lot in the texts of the year. Since the use ofthe valuable word A “mask” in the text searched by the server 11 isdifferent in the medical field and the catering field, the word net linkmodule 115 can use the past valuable word net D5 in such a manner thatthe valuable word A “mask” is linked to the valuable word B (hospital)with a correlation of 0.3 and linked to the valuable word C “life” witha correlation of 0.9. As a result, The word net linking module 115 doesnot need to judge again whether the valuable word A “mask” is linked tothe valuable word B (hospital)”, valuable word C “life”, etc. Theabove-mentioned example is just a simple example. The invention shouldnot be limited thereto.

In summary, the method/system for extracting valuable words and forminga valuable word net is based on a system collecting a large number oftexts, and extracting the valuable words by machine learning, and thenlinking the valuable words into a valuable word net for the subsequentuse. Accordingly, the purpose of the method and the system forcollecting text independently, extracting valuable words through machinelearning, and linking the valuable words into the valuable word net canbe indeed achieved.

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-   1 system for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word    net-   11 server-   12 third-party search system-   111 data processing module-   112 data storage module-   1121 learning database-   1122 valuable word database-   1123 word net database-   113 data collection module-   114 word extraction module-   115 word net linking module-   116 word segmentation auxiliary module-   D1 text information-   D2 text-related information-   D3 valuable word-   D4 word weight-   D5 valuable word net-   S1 step of collecting texts-   S2 step of training and learning the text-   S3 step of extracting valuable words-   S4 step of learning/training the valuable words-   S5 step of linking the valuable words-   S6 step of forming a valuable word net-   S7 step of extraction and use

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net, comprising following steps: collecting texts, wherein a server is connected to third-party search system via internet, and independently collects one or more text information and text-related information related to the text information through the third-party search system; training and learning the texts, wherein the server continuously collects and transmits the text information and the text-related information to a word extraction module of the server, and the word extraction module uses the text information and the text-related information as the first training data to perform a first machine learning; extracting valuable words, wherein, after the word extraction module completes the first machine learning, the word extraction module extracts one or more valuable words from the text information based on a first machine learning result, and stores the valuable word in the server; learning/training the valuable words, wherein a word net linking module of the server stores one or more of the valuable words and the text-related information as a second training data for a second machine learning; linking the valuable words, wherein, after the word net linking module completes the second machine learning, the valuable word is linked to another valuable word or a plurality of the valuable words with a word weight based on a second machine learning result; and forming a valuable word net, wherein the word net linking module integrates one or more groups of the valuable words linked based on the word weight into the valuable word net, and stores the valuable word net in the server.
 2. The method for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 1, wherein the text information comprises articles from internet sources, email marketing texts, product descriptions, public documents, short texts, or a combination thereof.
 3. The method for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 1, wherein the text-related information comprises a number of times the text has been used, a number of times the text has been linked, a number of times the text has been cited, a number of times the text has been clicked, a number of times the text has been read, a number of times the words in the text have been occurring, used, read, and clicked, and a frequency of common words, and a correlation of external sites, a conversion of expert knowledge, a probability space, a Shannon entropy, a spatial distribution, or a combination thereof.
 4. The method for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first machine learning and the second machine learning employ an unsupervised learning, a self-supervised learning, a heuristic algorithms, or a combination thereof.
 5. The method for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 1, wherein the word extraction module learns the text information in different languages, and extracts the same or similar valuable words in different languages.
 6. The method for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of forming the valuable word net is followed by a step of extraction, a user extracts the valuable word from the server through a user information device, and the valuable word net linked based on the word weight and belonging to the valuable word is also extracted by the server.
 7. A system for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net, comprising: a server comprising a data processing module which is respectively connected to a data storage module, a data collection module, a word extraction module, and a word net linking module, wherein the data processing module is employed to operate the server; wherein the data storage module comprises a learning database, a valuable word database, and a word net database; wherein the data collection module collects and stores a text information and a text-related information in the learning database; wherein the word extraction module makes use of the text information and the text-related information stored in the learning database as a first training data to perform a first machine learning, a valuable word is extracted from the text information based on a first machine learning result, and the valuable word is stored in the valuable word database; wherein the word net linking module uses the valuable word and the text-related information as a second training information and performs a second machine learning, the valuable word is linked to another valuable word or a plurality of the valuable words according to a word weight based on a second machine learning result, and then the word net linking module generates one or more groups of the valuable words linked based on the word weight into a valuable word net, and the valuable word net is stored to the word net database; and a third-party search system providing the text information and the text-related information to the server.
 8. The system for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 7, wherein the text information comprises articles from internet sources, email marketing texts, product descriptions, public documents, short texts, or a combination thereof.
 9. The method for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 7, wherein the text-related information comprises a number of times the text has been used, a number of times the text has been linked, a number of times the text has been cited, a number of times the text has been clicked, a number of times the text has been read, a number of times the words in the text have been occurring, used, read, and clicked, and a frequency of common words, and a correlation of external sites, a conversion of expert knowledge, a probability space, a Shannon entropy, a spatial distribution, and a combination thereof.
 10. The system for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first machine learning and the second machine learning employs an unsupervised learning, a self-supervised learning, a heuristic algorithms, and a combination thereof.
 11. The system for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 7, wherein the data processing module is linked to a word segmentation auxiliary module which mainly performs a word segmentation action on the text information to assist the word extraction module to extract the valuable word.
 12. The system for extracting valuable words and forming a valuable word net as claimed in claim 7, wherein the word net linking module comprises a self-copying learning function, when the valuable word is formed into the valuable word net, the self-copy function extracts the past valuable word net from the word net database, apply the past valuable word to the valuable word net that is newly formed, and quickly adjust the word weight of the second machine learning result to form another valuable word net. 